On this day: Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death

Events, birthdays and anniversaries for 10 September
By The Newsroom
Published 10th Sep 2014, 01:00 BST
On this day in 1945 Vidkun Quisling, the puppet premier of Norway, was sentenced to death for collaboration. Picture: GettyOn this day in 1945 Vidkun Quisling, the puppet premier of Norway, was sentenced to death for collaboration. Picture: Getty
On this day in 1945 Vidkun Quisling, the puppet premier of Norway, was sentenced to death for collaboration. Picture: Getty

1297: Scots under William Wallace defeated the English at Cambuskenneth.

1547: The Battle of Pinkie, in which the Scots, under the Earl of Arran, were heavily defeated by English, with thousands of Scottish soldiers killed.

1823: Simon Bolivar became the dictator of Peru.

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1897: Marlborough Street Court, London, fined a taxi-driver, George Smith, £1 to make him the first person in Britain to be convicted for drunken driving.

1898: Empress Elizabeth of Austria-Hungary was assassinated by Italian anarchist in Geneva.

1907: British colony of New Zealand became a dominion.

1921: The first motorway was completed in Germany.

1922: Monza race track in Italy was opened.

1939: German Army gained complete control of western Poland; Canada declared war on Germany; first British forces arrived in France.

1942: RAF dropped 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf in a single raid.

1945: Vidkun Quisling, the puppet premier of Norway, was sentenced to death for collaboration and was executed on 24 October.

1956: President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who seized the Suez Canal on 26 July, rejected 18-nation proposals for crossing the waterway.

1961: Debris killed 13 people in the crowd when two cars collided in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.

1967: Gibraltar referendum resulted in overwhelming vote to retain link with Britain rather than Spanish sovereignty.

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1981: Picasso’s Guernica returned to Spain after 40 years custodianship in the United States. Picasso refused to allow the painting to be shown in Spain until democracy was restored.

1992: Medical experts said a Pittsburgh patient who died after having a baboon liver transplant had contracted the Aids virus.

2001: Charles Ingram cheated his way into winning £1 million on the television quiz show Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

2007: Wendy Alexander became leader of the Labour Party in Scotland, replacing Jack McConnell, the former first minister who stood down following the party’s defeat in the Scottish Parliament elections.

ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1771 Mungo Park, Selkirk-born surgeon and explorer in West Africa; 1890 Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Glasgow-born archaeologist; 1918 Rin Tin Tin, German Shepherd dog and movie star; 1926 Beryl Cook, painter.

Deaths: 1797 Mary Wollstonecroft Godwin, pioneer of women’s rights; 1938 Charles Cruft, dog show founder; 1985 Jock Stein, football manager; 1999 Bill McCue, singer.

BIRTHDAYS

Colin Firth CBE, actor, 54; Siobhan Fahey, singer, 56; Christopher Columbus, actor and director, 56; Carol Decker, singer, 57; José Feliciano, singer, 69; Judy Geeson, actress, 66; Christopher Hogwood CBE, musicologist and conductor, 73; Johnny Keating, Edinburgh-born musician, composer, 87; Karl Lagerfeld, fashion designer, 81; Larry Nelson, golfer, 67; Arnold Palmer, golfer, 85; Joe Perry, musician (Aerosmith), 64; Ryan Philippe, actor, 40; Guy Ritchie, film director, 46; John Archibald Sinclair, 3rd Viscount Thurso, MP, 61; Hetti Bywater, actress, 20; Coco Rocha, model, 26; Laurent Koscielny, footballer, 29; Cynthia Lennon, publisher and first wife of John Lennon, 75; Eoin Morgan, Test cricketer, 28; Gustavo Kuerten, former world No 1 tennis player, 38.